Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Trim: 7 x 9
978-0-7425-4169-6 • Hardback • October 2004 • $122.00 • (£80.00)
978-0-7425-4170-2 • Paperback • October 2004 • $41.00 • (£27.95)
Steven P. Schacht, (1960-2003), served as professor in the Department of Sociology at Plattsburgh State University of New York. The bulk of his research over the past 10 years was ethnographic in approach, exploring issues of gender identity and gender construction. He also served as co-editor of Feminism and Men: Reconstructing Gender Relations with Doris Ewing, and Forging Radical Alliances Across Difference: Coalition Politics for a New Millennium with Jill Bystydzienski. Steve openly and honestly battled colon cancer for five years, dying in 2003 with the same passion and equanimity with which he lived. Doris W. Ewing is a professor emeritus of sociology at Southwest Missouri State University. Her primary areas of research and teaching are race, class, gender and disability. She has been active in community organizing and has previously co-authored a book and several articles on men and feminism with Steven P. Schacht.
Chapter 1 The Stalled Revolution
Chapter 2 Why Men Should be Feminists: Steve's Story
Chapter 3 How Patriarchy Wounds Us All: Doris's Story
Chapter 4 The Crumbling of Patriarchy: Equality as the Wave of the Future
Chapter 5 Envisioning Alternatives to the Contemporary Manhood-Making Machine
Chapter 6 Becoming a (Pro)Feminist
Chapter 7 Being a (Pro)Feminist
Chapter 8 (Pro)Feminist Parenting: Learning How to Mother and be a Positive Feminist Role Model
Chapter 9 Feminist Women and (Pro)Feminist Men: Moving From an Uneasy to Radical Alliance
Chapter 10 Undoing the Original Phallic Sin: Envisioning A Fourth Wave of Feminism
Steven P. Schacht and Doris W. Ewing … share something quite profound and equally meaningful to them both: an overriding concern about the future of feminism, and indeed the unshakeable belief in the possibility of a nonoppressive future. Part theoretical treatise, part how-to manual and personal narrative, this is a quick, easy, and interesting read for scholars … as well as for first- and second-year undergraduate students.
— Mirelle Cohen, University of Puget Sound; Teaching Sociology
By interweaving their own personal stories, and grounding these stories in feminist theories and research, Schacht and Ewing demonstrate the main thesis of their book: Not only is feminism still alive; it holds the potential for transforming the world, through a committed partnership between women and men.
— Cheng Chen, University of Southern California
Feminism With Men is written in an accessible style but is grounded in academic literature in order to appeal to the broadest readership possible. Potential readers would be men with a beginning interest in feminism, self-identified (pro)feminist men, and men and women doing theoretical work on gender in academia.